Congrats to Aminah Mae Safi, winner of the WNDB 2016 short story contest, and Schuyler Bailar. Both will be contributing incredible stories to the We Need Diverse Books YA collection, LIFT OFF. Coming in 2018.
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WNDB is proud to announce that Phoebe Yeh, VP/Publisher of Crown Books for Young Readers/Random House, has acquired publication rights to a Young Adult WNDB Anthology titled LIFT OFF. Lamar Giles, Senior Vice President of Communications for WNDB, will edit the anthology, which will have a Summer 2018 release date.
The anthology will be in memory of Walter Dean Myers and it will be inspired by his quote:“We need to bring our young people into the fullness of America’s promise and to do that we must rediscover who they are and who we are and be prepared to make the journey with them whatever it takes. My conceit is that literature can be a small path along that journey.”
The anthology will have one story reserved for a previously unpublished diverse author. WNDB will fill that slot via a short story contest. The winner will be included in the anthology and will receive a payment of $1,000.00 US.
More information available on our website.